You all remember Senator Pat Geary, that Nevada senator come to negotiate with Michael Corleone in Godfather II? If somehow you have forgotten, perhaps this clip will jog your memory. (Sorry, it’s in Spanish, but that’s all I could pull up from YouTube.)
Anyway, that was from the good old Reno-Vegas days, when things were still on the upswing and there was money to burn. Times have obviously changed, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping Harry Reid from seeking to run a 25 million dollar campaign for reelection as the Senator from Wynnsville.
When looking at Reid in the accompanying photo, I couldn’t but help thinking of GD Spradlin as Senator Geary in the movie, remembering his effusive praise for the new Don Corleone when the Senator came to a party at the young don’s home on Lake Tahoe. Reid knows who his don is too. He said of President Obama that “his heart is bigger than any heart in the world.” Indeed at a Vegas fundraiser on Tuesday night, donors paid $29,600 each to the Reid campaign for the honor of being photographed with President Obama. [Where did they come up with that figure?-ed. Maybe it translates into an easy round number in renminbi.)
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1. Wellspring:Isn’t this the same President Obama who condemned people who take business trips to Vegas?
Or did he get a good room rate now that the hospitality industry has collapsed?
May 28, 2009 - 3:23 pm 2. Ed Driscoll » Senator Geary, Meet Senator Reid, Meet Martin Scorsese:[...] Roger L. Simon notes the remarkable similarity between a fictitious Nevada Senator and his real life (well, more or less) counterpart. There’s also another cinematic element to Harry Reid, of course — a thinly disguised version of Reid was potrayed by Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Filed under: Bobos In Paradise, Hollywood, Interrupted, Liberal Fascism, Muggeridge’s Law [...]
May 28, 2009 - 4:30 pm 3. Scott:Good point,Ed…Reid likes to claim that he was targeted by the Mob when he was on the Nevada Gaming Commission.
May 28, 2009 - 6:09 pm 4. Scott:Roger,that was a thinly veiled portrait of Democratic Senator Pat MacCarron…
May 28, 2009 - 6:20 pm 5. Scott:MacCarron was a lowlife mobbed up SOB,which makes him far superior to the Copperhead Harry Reid…
May 28, 2009 - 6:34 pm 6. Mike_K:MacCarron got the airport named after him. Maybe Reid is hoping that they name the bullet train station, or something, after him. Reid’s family is hip deep in Nevada real estate, which is in deep do do right now. He needs the money.
May 29, 2009 - 6:32 am 7. hermie:Where did they come up with that figure?-ed.
Check the currency exchange rates.Maybe it comes out to an even number in Euros.
May 29, 2009 - 5:57 pm 8. Scott:Like Del Webb,Mike?
May 29, 2009 - 7:52 pm